Animal Gospel

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea. ~Isaiah 11:9

Covenant Foundations

Psalm 23: The Hope of the Universe

By: Martin Cisneros

The 23rd Psalm, though poetically written stands apart from all other
poetry as being a divine revelation of all of the plans and processes of
God in the behalf of Creation. The 23rd Psalm isn't poetry, again,
though it is poetically written. The 23rd Psalm stands before us as the
Genesis chapter 1 of all of Creation, the outworkings of divine grace
through the eons of time, and as a masterpiece "snap shot" of Bible
prophecy as it concerns us in both the immediate future, the coming
ages, and the endless eternity of all in all.

The 23rd Psalm challenges all of our notions of what constitutes
being a Shepherd by insisting that ultimately the divine benevolence
towards all of us is called "Shepherding" when all other nouns,
pronouns, and superlatives escape our ability to declare what exactly
life in God is like. The idea of the Lord being our Shepherd offends the
thoughtful and rational person, who in spite of his/her care for details
of compassion and Christian gentleness and meekness in all other areas
of life would still nontheless not give it a second thought to partake
of some animal's poor and betrayed flesh.

Woe, indeed, to the person who views Shepherding as necessarily self
centered and essentially and ultimately a means of exploiting animals
for personal gain, gratification, and self centered comforts! Your view
of your God is necessarily a view of someone who will stop at nothing to
fulfill His purposes at your complete expense rather than at His
expense!

If you view "Shepherding" as necessarily and eternally about growing
"animal crops," for human consumption, then the 23rd Psalm is bad news
to you, indeed, because by your set of definitions you are left with the
same misguided emotions that tormented St. Paul that you are, therefore,
a spectacle to both the world and to angels who are waiting for God to
say the Word in finally granting them permission to do with your flesh
and belongings all that you, yourself, would ever personally care to do
to animals or a worst enemy!

But if the Lord being your Shepherd brings hope and a shout of
triumph to your soul, then something within you may yet be more merciful
and tender towards yourself, the animal creation around you, and all
souls who will yet know Christ's saving power in their personal
experience than you've thus far considered to be within yourself. The
appetites, minds, and traditions of many hold the purest of hearts in
strictest bondage to what's ultimately profane and immoral --the going
after "strange flesh" in the Words of St. Jude!

The 23rd Psalm is the creative germ from which all of Creation was
formed, molded, temporarily broken [as pottery or dough], and yet to be
restored in fullness. The 23rd Psalm is eternal truth in the midst of a
generation that still asks "what is truth?". You were created from and
for the 23rd Psalm. That's where you come from and that is your destiny!
It begins with an utterance of "The Lord" and ends with a focus on the
"Time Lord," or the Lord of Time.

There's no need to fret or debate about the meaning of "forever"
where that passage is concerned because it's not an utterance of any
context of time outside of the context of God being All in all. God is
the Creator, the dam, and the flood-gate of time. God in Christ is it's
source, climax, extent, rules, definitions, and Redeemer. The last line
of the 23rd Psalm is the Old Testament counterpart to the Romans 16
declaration of Christ as the God whose purposes of Redemption ride the
currents of the ages that themselves have flowed from the age-enduring
promises of Redemption. He's declared as the "age-lasting" God in the
sense that no matter the period in which death, destruction, and
damnation reign through the first man Adam's one act of disobedience,
Christ is still the Man whose one act of obedience will seek and save
every soul while [systematically] seeking and destroying every last
vestige of rebellion from the cosmos!

We are promised to dwell in the "day" of the Lord all of the days of
our lives while we are in this mortal body. To me, that's the real sense
of the last verse of the 23rd Psalm. The house of the Lord is obviously
our bodies, from what the Bible teaches about the Blood of Christ, the
perfect lamb, having been applied to our hearts and consciences through
faith and what we have of the downpayment on redemption besides and in
lue of that reality.

The 23rd Psalm is a promise to animals, it's a promise to angels, and
it's a promise to both men and women who've lived at either extreme of
being either animals or angels. We dwell in the house of the Lord's
ages, times, or days with the anointing on our heads, a corrective
paddle on our butts, succulent provisions of green pastures and still
waters for our weary bodies and bellies, and with the hope that we can
sit down on our sore butts and partake of Christ in the presence of our
enemies. You don't eat in front of enemies that haven't been defeated!
The 23rd Psalm assures you of victory over every enemy that's ever waged
war against your soul to terrorize, harass, and spoil you of every good
thing and purpose of God in your life.

Christ is restoring your soul and leading you in paths of
righteousness for His Name's sake. You don't have to fear a single evil,
either temporal or eternal, because He is with you always. His rod and
staff are there to comfort you. His rod and staff are there to pull you
out of the interesting ditches that you've fallen into. And they're
there to test the depths of the waters He's asking you to cross, even
before He asks you to cross them! They're instruments that'll be used
more swiftly in the days to come to correct you and to frighten off your
enemies --while correcting them and fulfilling His additional purposes
of redeeming their lives from the very destruction that their hard
hearts have necessitated. They'll be used more forcefully in the days
ahead to restore your long lost provisions and to restore you to your
rest. They'll keep the valley of the shadow of death from ever being
anything more than a mere shadow!

His rod can be looked at as being the scepter of righteousness that
Christ weilds as both our Priest and King. One might even go so far as
to consider it the angels that inhabit His presence which He puts off as
the coat of a gentleman which He's purposed to lay on the puddle before
us which we've feared was a rushing river bent on keeping us from His
provisions, direction, and rest. Though we should never give angels a
place in our lives which the New Testament doesn't give them, we may
still rest assured of their Presence and Activities in our behalf since
we're the heirs of salvation. He's placed them before us so that our
foot won't dash against a stone according to the 91st Psalm. If they're
baring us up in their hands so that we won't dash our foot against a
stone, then they're the appointed red carpet of life to the believer
announcing all of the dignities of the New Covenant, the dignities of
the first born, and the promise of God towards the latter fruits who
though destroyed in this age are still subject to the Anointed Savior
Who's the same yesterday, today, and through the ages of unfolding
grace.

It can't be emphasized enough that Christ still restores souls that
have weakened in the valley of the shadow of death. Though we've
previously been so unsure about the waters before us and the title deed
of the green pastures within view because of the menacing valley of the
shadow of death, we don't have to fear any evil. He's with us to protect
us, deliver us, teach us, and restore our souls. His Anointing, which is
His burden removing, yoke destroying power in the Words of Isaiah the
prophet, can restore clarity to our minds where there's only been fear
and confusion until now. Even if we've never ever known peace of mind
and rest from our struggles, He can create within us a pure, undefiled,
strong, and healthy heart. He's committed to removing every fear of
failure, every fear of abandonment, and every shadow of the past that's
continually demanded our death, our tension, our frustration, and our
fragmentation. He loves you, no matter what! He declared that before the
foundation of the world and He declares it with every mistake we make,
with every crushing blow that tries to bring confusion, estrangement,
and loss, and He's determined to be satisfied with the results of the
travail of His own Personal Soul according to Isaiah chapters 53 and 54.

"Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil for thou art with me." --Psalm 23:4

The Psalmist assures us of being delivered from the fears of the
valley of the shadow of death. What are those fears that have to bow
their knee to the greater fear of the Lord (which is the beginning of
wisdom, according to the Proverbs)? Are you afraid of being jobless?
Perhaps you are jobless or have just found yourself in a jobless
situation. Or maybe the threat of being laid-off is ever before you. You
can fear no evil because the Lord is with you. You can potentially be
afraid from the perspective of the threats that surround you, but you
can experientially be without the fear of evil because you abide in the
secret place of the Most High. The threats that surround you may be more
than shadows, but you're called into the fellowship of light.

In the fellowship of light His blood cleanses you of all evil. That
doesn't just mean a total cleansing from the evils that either you've
committed or that have been committed against you, but that also means
having the immune system of the Lord at work in your being to where
financial crisis can strike the body of your life or your life's work
and that financial evil can be totally overwhelmed by the white blood
cells inherent in the Blood of Jesus Christ at work in your life through
the power of His High Priestly ministry and His manifest Spirit in your
life. Perhaps you may be experiencing the fevers and sweats that bills
bring on. That doesn't mean that the Blood of your High Priest in the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, isn't working in your life. When you
weave in and out of sweats in the midst of a feverish condition, in the
natural, that generally means that WWIII is going on inside of your body
as your body is fighting against infection, right? The Blood of Christ
will do the same exact thing in your spirit warring against those
temptations that are warring against your soul and warring against those
things that are invaders into your life to take away from the quality of
your life as it progresses towards the eons of His purposes for your
life.

It is not the will of God for you to be broke or to barely be able to
pay your bills. It is not the will of God for you to have to decide
which bills get paid this month and which will have to wait until next
month! It is God's will for you to obey Him all of the days of your life
and for you to dwell in the house, or riches, of the Lord, forever and
ever! Just because your family has "always" been broke, busted, and
disgusted, that doesn't mean that God's plan has ever been anything less
than for you to reign in life through the abundance of grace and the
gift of righteousness that He's given you in Christ.

My son, fear the Lord and the King; do not associate with those given
to change; for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin
those two can bring? Proverbs 24:21-22

Have reverential awe for God and Jesus Christ, according to this in
the book of Proverbs (i.e. the very book of the Old Testament that asks
it's readers if they know the name of the Son of God in Proverbs 30:4).

The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with
it. Proverbs 10:22

Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and
drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under
the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his
heritage. As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and
given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his
labor -- this is the gift of God. For he will not dwell unduly on the
days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20

Reflections on the past are only towards the undoing of one's life,
unless it's the pure testimony of God's goodness in one's life or just
historical studies in a general sense (apart from personal
considerations). We are promised satisfaction in the book of Proverbs if
we dwell in the fear of the Lord --satisfaction up to and including all
of the days of our lives that we spend in the reverential awe of the
Lord that proceeds from the Lord rather than from the flesh or the mind.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the
righteous; do not plunder his resting place; for a righteous man may
fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.
Proverbs 24:15-16

Call to remembrance the reverential awe of the Lord that entered into
your life when the Holy Spirit invaded your life. Honor Jesus, the King
of Glory, and do those things that are consistent with His teachings and
that are consistent in His teachings in unfolding towards the goal of
universal sanctification towards the universal brotherhood. Don't
associate with those who are tossed to and fro with every wind of
doctrine, because the Bible warns that their immaturity will be their
undoing. And you don't need to be sinking on their Titanic without hope
and without God in this world because you estranged yourself from the
covenants of promise that shine as a sure lighthouse unto the perfect
day!

The fogs will come and go in the valley of the shadow of death, but
keep your eyes on the light that's coming from the lighthouse. Stay
focused on the ultimate glory of God in the regeneration of the whole of
Creation after many purging judgments and baptisms in the Spirit. Keep
your focus on the growing level of the fear of the Lord that's
independent of any religious edict, but that has rather begun to unfold
into your heart from the Father of Glory. That fear of the Lord, that
has proceeded from the Lord's Spirit into yours, IS your source of
Prosperity. Satisfaction is in that secret place of the Most High!
Remember the abode of Praise:

A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the
unfaithful feeds on violence. He who guards his mouth preserves his
life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction. Proverbs
13:2-3

You don't need to be given to change but towards the reverential
obedience of the Lord. Reverential fear is not enough. Reverential fear
that actually proceeds from the Lord rather than from the clergy in your
life or in your past is not even enough. You must actually do those
things that the Father Who commands the obedience of all tells you to
do. Jesus is the image and the Holy Spirit within you is the map. The
soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence. Does that mean that you and
Jesus need a really long talk --with you doing most of the fasting and
listening-- about the movies that you are watching or recommending? It
says elsewhere in Proverbs that only by pride comes contention. Are you
feeding on hours and hours of contention in the movies that you're
watching, thinking about, and recommending to others? Pride goes before
a fall. Pride is more than the puffing up of one's chest in defiance of
all sound advise from the Scriptures. Pride is any deviation of thought
form from the Scripture's presentation of the image of Jesus Christ that
God has commanded to shine out of the darkness of your heart. Are you
prefering darkness rather than light because your deeds are evil, as the
Scriptures describe as the preoccupation of some who are among us?
You'll not be satisfied outside and away from the Fountain of Living
Waters that we have in Jesus Christ! Proverbs 12:27 calls diligence
man's most precious possession. Proverbs 10:11 says that violence covers
the mouth of the wicked.

What are you being most diligent towards? The image of the Son of God
within and around you? Jesus taught, in the Gospel of John, that He
abides in those who abide in His Word. Satisfaction is only possible in
seeing the Godman on the inside of you. Can you see Christ within you as
the hope of glory? Or have you departed from the fountain of living
waters with your names inscribed in the earth as an indictment against
you by the Son of God?

He loves you, but the only way to fear no evil because of the fear of
evil having been completely and practically cast out of you is to have
an awareness of all that He's done in your behalf. You must begin to
guard the Spirit's activities in your life and not allow anything to
ever again be a distraction from Jesus Christ and you crucified in Him!
An awareness of the ever-expanding resurrection into all of Creation
must begin to dominate your most basic thoughts. The only way that
that'll happen is through diligent study, meditation, and praise to God
along the lines, toward the lines, and in the behalf of the lines of all
that you are discovering! There are no shortcuts. Proverbs 10:17 says
that the one who keeps instruction is in the way of life. What has the
Holy Spirit been pouring light on in your life? Both in a general and in
a specific sense; both in a practical and in a mystical sense. You'll
not escape death without it! You must begin to seek, again, for glory,
honor, and immortality according to Romans chapter 2. If you don't, then
there's no nicer way of putting it: you will treasure against yourselves
wrath in the day of wrath and indignation of God. If you're self-seeking
and not obeying the truth that has been revealed to YOU in Jesus, then
you're following the destination of tribulation and anguish of soul. In
that context, then you will fear evil and you will fear really great and
powerful evils in your life!

It doesn't matter what God in Christ has revealed to others nearly as
much as it matters --where your own life is practically concerned-- what
God in Christ has revealed to you. Just as you won't be judged for the
deeds of others, you must not worry about how much God has shown others
or how much (you think) He has not shown you. You'll be judged for your
obedience, even more than you'll be judged for your light. Stupidity is
more easily overlooked by the Lord than disobedience. All of us are
stupid to varying degrees in varying subjects and matters of importance.
That's why humanity is called the cattle on a thousand hills by the
Scriptures, rather than the "oracles" on a thousand hills.

For you to fear no evil then the greater reverential awe of what God
in Christ has accomplished on the cross must dominate in your thinking.
The chastisement in all of it's bloody fury necessary to bring us peace
was upon Jesus Christ. He was totally impoverished in His one act of
obedience towards the end of making us wealthy beyond the wildest dreams
of an obedient, hopeful child. A crucifix should loom heavier and more
menacing in the horizon of your life than any temporal storm you could
ever conceive of. But it takes time to establish your heart, in the
language of Psalm 112, to where you trust the crucifixion enough to obey
your risen Lord in all that He commands of you as you follow Him into
green pastures and still waters for baptism and lunch along the sea-side
of life. Listen, anew, to His teachings and take the overflowing cup
alongside Him, KNOWING that it's an overflowing covenant cup that speaks
of reconciliation, sanctification, and the oneness of all spilling all
over all of creation. The table set before the Body of Christ in the
midst of His enemies is a covenant table over which we can celebrate the
negotiating power of Jesus Christ to reconcile all things to God that
are in the heavenlies and in the earthlies. Christ is Christ triumphant
indeed!

The table set before us and the overflowing cup placed in our hands
isn't a cup or a table of drunkenness as we try to drown the sorrows of
the divine Sovereign Who's been vanquished from the presence of His
enemies. It's His table that's set before us. And as our table is set
before us in the presence of our enemies, it's only a type and shadow of
the table set before Him in the presence of His enemies and to the ever
expanding proportions that His enemies are brought to justice, peace,
and to the new order before Him they'll likewise be brought to justice
and peace and reformation before us!

We not only have the hope to fear no evil set before us because of
this consummate hope for all of Creation that in the midst of the earth
beneath where blood, fire, and vapour of smoke are the prelude to every
knee bowing and every tongue confessing that Jesus is Lord, but we have
this hope of no fear set before us in the fact that our heads have been
anointed in the presence of our enemies. While hell has enlarged itself
to overtake and imprison larger and larger sections of creation, the
burden removing, yoke destroying power of Isaiah 10:27 is upon our heads
to cause the most brutish beast to lie down in the presence of the most
benign lamb in the creation around us. Isaiah 11 and the hope extended
towards us in the Hosea 2:18 covenant are that bow, sword, and war are
abolished as much in the behalf of animals as they're to be abolished in
our behalf. When we talk of the abolishment of enemies and all enmity,
then we can talk of the eternal struggle that wages war in the
heavenlies and that our struggles with evil may enter with us into the
new arena of the "hereafter." But when the same promises are pledged
towards the animals in Scriptures that understand them to be animals
still in bondage to the present futilities, then we have reason to hope
in the justification of all of humankind not only in the final and
consummate hope of the ages of the ages, but also in the here and now.
Yes, there are yet many realms to plunder and many enemies in many hells
to rebuke, tear, and heal, but few can deny the hellatious existence of
this present realm towards those who aren't carried about through near
endless personally (apparently) inherent wisdom (tailored to the age) or
riches (tailored to the age) from birth.

Still waters and green pastures are not only a feature of the
heavenlies, but they're also promised to our generation in this world in
Isaiah 30 from the point of having seen the day of the great slaughter
when the towers fell. You can know peace and provision in the midst of
eonian (apparent) chaos simply because of the seasons that have been
with the Father from the beginning that we've now entered into. We've
entered into the ages of still waters and green pastures that'll comfort
all of Christ's sheep and deeply punished and shamed goats.

Have you known Christ's "depart from me, because I never knew you" in
the past? Cheer up because the time of the regathering is at hand when
the Lord will reach out yet again to many nations according to Isaiah
11. The flocks shall again pass under the hands of Him who counts them,
according to Jeremiah 33. The King of Glory who once only bade those
perfect in the Blood of Christ to come forth out of the shadows of death
now cries forth His command for all to come to Mt. Zion so that He can
teach them His ways! Rejoice because the time of the greater universal
deliverance is at hand! He loves you, He died for you, He's lived for
you, and though He's judged you, rebuked you, torn you, and utterly
destroyed you, He'll not abandon your souls to hell nor allow His holy
One to see a corruption in His reign over all!

Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good and His mercy endures
forever and YOU WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
FOREVER AND EVER AND THROUGHOUT ENDLESS WORLDS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN AND
EVEN YET TO BE BORN!

The Restorer of souls Who is ever with us keeps us from being in want
by leading us through green pastures along still waters. He keeps us
from fearing any evil by restoring our souls in the knowledge that He's
with us and will always be with us, that He'll discipline and train us
and love us, and continue to love us. He loves us with all of His
Singularity, Heart, Mind, and Strength. He's always our Savior, the
Healer of our hearts, the cleanser of our minds and consciences, and the
Purifier of our enemies as we press them before Him in prayer. He's the
One Who's taken away the sin of the world and is actively, and
systematically, reconciling every enemy as He's subduing them and
punishing them for their arrogance, presumption, and hardness of heart.
As High Priest that's passed into the heavens, He's the continual guide
of our words until they're conformed into the Image of His Words. He's
the discipliner of our hearts and flesh Who's commanded the
unconditional obedience of our words and actions before Him.

The punishments of the Lord are real and they frighten demons to
almost no end. God will punish as deeply as it takes to separate us from
our disobedience and to cast every fear out of us. His wrath is genuine,
true, and faithful to the end. He'll have us obedient and far from
paradise until that day. He'll rebuke us sternly and Scripture pleads
with us not to grow faint and wearied at His rebuke, but to part with
our sins and take our refuge in His promises of newness of being and
restoration of righteousness, sanctification, wholeness, and paradise.
He shows us His love and adoration hundreds of times a day, mostly in
the little things, while despising the ugliness of our flesh-likeness
that would ever try to put Him to the test. He loves and cherishes our
physical bodies all of the days of our lives. What He despises is not
our flesh, but our tantrums, our bitterness, our envy, and our fears. He
loves us fully, eternally, and with infinite commitment.

He'll gather every heart in the fullness of time, destroy every
expression of fear, rebellion, and darkness of mind, heart, and life.
The greatest pain to initially strike the soul is the learning how to
hear and obey His voice. Learning to hear is as learning to walk with
our physical legs, while learning to obey is like learning how to run,
tone, nurture, and rest our bodies. As fear is being driven out from
before the Presence of the Lord in our lives, every part of our bodies
will feel as if they're on fire. When disobedience and any sense of
rejection is being parted from our spirits, it'll honestly feel, at
times, as though a mighty warrior is running a sword through the deepest
parts of our stomachs.

Eternal punishment is NOT ETERNAL IN DURATION, but it's ETERNAL in
it's effects. It's ETERNAL in the sense that it's the ETERNAL God Who is
punishing. It's ETERNAL in the sense that it's the ETERNAL response of
God towards sin, now and in the ages to come, and in any other time,
whether infinite past, infinite future, or some sort of parallel
time/space in which God will deal with sin! God has but One reaction
when His children anywhere, and at any time, sin, and that's the ETERNAL
destruction of the sin from the Presence of the Lord and the Brightness
of His coming -- coupled with the capturing, nurturing, and restoring of
His lost/miscarried child. The Lord Who is our Shepherd Whose Rod and
Staff Comfort us is the same Lord in Whose House we will dwell from time
Immemorial to time Immemorial. His Rod and Staff are the curse and
destruction of sin and His method of shattering EVERY yoke while
removing EVERY burden of bondage. God is eternally committed to us, no
matter what. He doesn't have a nodding attitude towards sin at any time,
whether yesterday, today, or into any of the [ordained] forevers of
divine graciousness, sternness, and wholeness.

Many people have criticized Origen's speculation of possible future
falls from the divine grace after all things have been regathered to God
through Christ. But I know that what the beloved Origen was trying to
say was that God was eternally yoked and knit to every single one of us,
and that though His holiness abounds forever to His glory, there never
will ever be anything that can ever separate us from His love, His
mercies, and His redeeming wisdom. God will always demonstrate the
fullness of His commitment towards each and every single one of us.
He'll never fall short of reaching the inherent demands of His own
compassion, wisdom, and eternal commitment towards each of us!

Not any of us will ever "want," in any eternal sense from the
perspective that He's always our Shepherd and He's always leading us,
though through our own blind and insistent wrestling against the divine
nature and commandment we may each find ourselves falling into ditches,
up to our necks in water, and being pounded by the winds and broken
branches of life. He'll rescue us. He's the Lord our rescuer - our
Redeemer. None of our souls will ever be eternally broken, though
through our own fears, fearful imaginations, and fear-filled rebellions
we may each and every single one of us experience brokenness at one time
or another that's more than we can ever seem to be able to endure. But
He'll not tolerate the eternal existence of fear, but will burn it
thoroughly out of our lives. What fear there yet remains in us at death
will be hunted down and painfully extracted by the discerning Eyes of
the Lord and the Eternal fire of His discerning Word/Scripture which is
the filtration system of the cosmos.

Everlasting consolation will be born out of the pains and pangs of
the previous ages upon which the Blood of Christ has struck through His
High Priestly ministry and eternal Spirit. His Blood has struck the ages
and germinated all of our brokenness into a beautiful flower of
completeness before Him. His love is what we've always longed for, even
in ignorance, because deeply imbedded in our spirits is the memory of
the One from Whom we all proceeded at the foundation of the world. The
emptiness that we've all felt at one time or another only indicated to
the discerning mind that there was something that we were created to
house. It's not the gathering of possessions or the accomplishment of
anything on our part that restores our wholeness and gives us peace of
mind and the ever-illusive mistress known as Contentment. It's resting
at the feet of the everlasting Shepherd that causes all of our fears to
flee and all of our needs to be met. The only thing that we're ever
truly required to obey is His loving Eyes that look our way, look us
over, and, most importantly, see us as a full grown harvest or as a
completed exotic building. It's a true saying that we're not as complete
in His Eyes as we are in His Arms. Look at His Arms that have been
bludgeoned to death on their pilgrimage to bring us back to the divine
glory that we were Created for. And then try to tell me, from your
heart, that He's not the Shepherd of us all!